William Barclay Quotes
God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.William Barclay
Quotes to Explore
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
B. F. Skinner -
I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
Kate McKinnon -
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Paracelsus -
Golf is played with the arms.
Sam Snead -
I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
Fat Joe -
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
Sal Albanese -
I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
Olivier Martinez -
Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand -
Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
Gail Sheehy
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
Caitlyn Jenner -
You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
Walter Kirn -
As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
Dane Cook -
If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
Garry Trudeau -
I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
Ira Sachs
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
Jane Austen -
Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.
Chuck Bednarik -
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
Joseph Hall -
God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.
William Barclay